Tim Hames

Tim Hames is an amusing and accomplished after dinner speaker or awards host with a deep reservoir of little-known but true revelations about the media as well as politics. He is also a periodic broadcaster for Radio 4 and a columnist in The Tablet.

Special Advisor and Head of Commumnications

In September 2009, he became special advisor to Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow.

He is also Head of Communications and Public Affairs for the BVCA (British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association)

Chief Leader Writer

As chief leader writer for The Times, Tim was responsible for the opinions of that newspaper. He provides the ultimate "insider" knowledge of the media, politics and international affairs delivered with a famous lacerating humour.

Political Insider

Tim Hames is the ultimate political insider, a man well positioned to cut through the smokescreen of spin and reveal what politicians at home and abroad are actually likely to do, not just what they say. Tim also has plenty of views of his own, which he offers to the readers of The Times every Monday usually with an excoriating wit to accompany those opinions.
 
Before joining The Times in 1996, Tim was a lecturer in Politics specialising in American and British politics and international relations. As Assistant Editor of The Times he also writes extensively for the travel pages of that newspaper.